Mehdi Talbi, PhD, is a computer security researcher at Synacktiv. His main interests are vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, and source code auditing. Mehdi has published his work in several peer-reviewed journals (Journal in computer Virology) and magazines (Phrack). He has also presented his work at several international conferences including Infiltrate, Blackhat Europe, Virus Bulletin, SSTIC, Warcon, etc. Mehdi is one of the contributor to the Haka open source project showcased at DEF CON and Black Hat Arsenal.